Articles tagged under: Loksabha

Nine succumb to Measles in Gujarat, second highest among all states

December 17, 2022
Nine succumb to Measles in Gujarat, second highest among all states

New Delhi: With an upsurge in measles cases has been reported in November 2022 all over the country. Gujarat ranks second in terms of deaths and third in terms of cases. So far, nine people have died in the state. According to the data presented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Loksabha, "Gujarat reported a total of 1,650 cases out of which nine patients succumbed to death. Meanwhile, Maharashtra saw the most no. of cases and death as out of 3075 patients 13 died." The reply...Read More

122 Mandis of Gujarat integrated with National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) scheme

December 14, 2022
122 Mandis of Gujarat integrated with National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) scheme

New Delhi: Minister of Agriculture and farmers welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar informed the Loksabha that 122 Mandis of Gujarat have been integrated with National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) scheme. In reply to the question from Jaswant Singh Bhabhor, a Member of Parliament from Dahod, the Minister said, "As on 30th November 2022, 1260 mandis of 22 States and 03 Union Territories (UTs) have been integrated with the e-NAM platform. More than 1.74 crore farmers & 2.3 Lakh traders have been reg...Read More

Gujarat firms spent Rs 1400 crore under CSR in 2020–2021

August 10, 2022
Gujarat firms spent Rs 1400 crore under CSR in 2020–2021

Ahmedabad: The Ministry of Corporate Affairs informed the Parliament that Private and Public Companies spent about 1400 crore as part of their CSR activities during 2020-21. Responding to Kutch BJP MP Vinod Chavda, the Ministry informed that Rs. 100.79 Crore was spent by Public sector undertaking in 20-21. Meanwhile, the amount spent by private sector firms stands at Rs 1296.48 crore. This total amount of Rs. 1397.26 Crore is about 400 crores higher than the amount spent in 2019-20, which...Read More

BharatNet Project 99% complete in Gujarat: Central Govt

August 06, 2022
BharatNet Project 99% complete in Gujarat: Central Govt

New Delhi: The Ministry of communications on Wednesday informed the Loksabha about the status of the BharatNet Project in Gujarat. Responding to the question of Navaari MP and BJP Gujarat Chief C R Patil, the Ministry informed that implementation of the BharatNet project to connect all Gram Panchayats is almost complete in Gujarat as 14,191 Gram Panchayats (GPs) out of 14,301 Gram Panchayats are service ready. Union Minister of State for Communication, Devsinh Chauhan, informed, "BharatNet ...Read More

Gujarat 4th in number of Dog bite cases

July 28, 2022
Gujarat 4th in number of Dog bite cases

Ahmedabad: Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying on Tuesday, July 26th, informed the Loksabha about the attack on humans and other domestic animals by stray dogs in the country. The number shows that Gujarat stands at 4th place after Tamilnadu, Maharashtra and West Bengal in dog bite cases. It is reported from the data of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, that a total of 14,50,666 cases of animal bites took place this year so far. Gujarat has reported a constant dec...Read More

1.6 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship in 2021; Over 78000 got US citizenship

July 19, 2022
1.6 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship in 2021; Over 78000 got US citizenship

New Delhi: Ministry of Home Affairs on 19th July during the Monsoon Session of Lok Sabha presented the data about the people who renounced Indian citizenship till the Current year since 2019. According to that data, a total of 1,63,370 Indians renounced their citizenship in different countries, as compared to 85,256 in 2020 and 1,44,017 in 2019. Out of these 1,63,370 citizens, more than 78 thousand got US citizenship, whereas more than 25 Thousand got citizenship in Australia, 21597 got Ca...Read More

Modi congratulates Jaitley, Sharad , Karan Singh

March 07, 2013

Ahmedabad, 7 March 2013 Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi today congratulated Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha and Gujarat Mp Shri Arun Jaitley for 'Outstanding Parliamentarian Award' to him. Shri Modi also congratulated Janata Dal United leader Sharad Yadav and Dr. Karan Singh for their selection for same award. In his tweet today afternoon Shri Modi said: Congratulation to Arun Jaitley ji, Dr. Karan Singh ji & Sharad Yadav ji on being conferred the 'Outs...Read More

109 pending issues of Gujarat with centre discussed at state MPs meeting

February 16, 2013

By our correspondent, Gandhinagar, 16 February 2013 In a pre-budget exercise, Chief Minister Narendra Modi today apprised the Members of Parliament from Gujarat to forcefully take up the state’s 109 cases pending with Central Government in the Parliament, House Committees, Ministries and other appropriate forums at the Centre. In his first meeting with the MPs after being elected for another term, Mr. Modi urged them forget their political affiliations and for...Read More

Who skipped a meeting of Gujarat MPs to discuss state issues with centre? (Video)

February 16, 2013

By our correspondent, Gandhinagar, 16 February 2013 Prominent BJP MPs and all Gujarat Congress MPs barring only one were absent in a meeting called by Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar today to discuss Gujarat's pending issues with center. Such meeting is held once every year before the budget session of parliament. While entire lot of Gujarat Congress MPs was represented by Rajkot MP Kunvarji Bavalia, the prominent BJP MPs absent in the meeting were LK Advani...Read More

Privilege committee to look into alleged assault on Gujarat Congress MP, Sushma to talk to Modi

May 02, 2012

Ahmedabad, 2 May, 2012 An issue of alleged police assault against Gujarat's Dahod MP Prabha Taviad has been refereed to parliament's Privilege committee. Congress leader Girija Vyas today raised the issue of alleged police assault on Prabha Taviad in Lok Sabha today. Prabha Taviad sitting next to Girija Vyas showed marks of alleged police assault on her hands. 'She was pulled by her hair, and was not allowed treatment during detention," Vyas further said. Victim MP br...Read More